Post-Match Thread and Ratings Yeovil Town 2-2 Southend United

[Grayson]

Could not agree more. It is almost as if Kevin Maher (and I know this seems ridiculous when the Head Coach's job depends on results) is frightened of giving Danny Waldron a start because he might just prove his exclusion was unjustified since he recovered from injury months ago.

We are always told players have to earn the shirt. But Maher chops and changes the team based on his perception of the opposition and his loyality to certain players is not based on consistency of performance. At the moment, Southend have no forwards that are consistently scoring and yet he is not giving Waldron a fair crack of the whip at precisely the time when he should be applying his much quoted principle that no player has an automatic right to be included in the starting line-up or, for that matter, be excluded from it.

Maher is running a professional football team, not a village cricket 5th team. He does not have to give people game time for the sake of it. He has seen Waldron every day for 18 months.

Others claiming he will score loads for another side at this level. Just zero evidence for that. He is 29 in May and this is the highest level he has ever played at.

Players get so much better in the imagination when they aren't in the team.

 

[Hawkwell Blue]

playoffs are a dream ,some people need to wake up,draw against Tamworth with a late equalizer , Draw against Rochdale with a late equalizer , draw against Yeovil with a late equalizer, and some of you think this is playoff form, thats 7 points you dropped when it comes to catching up or making it very hard for teams like Rochdale who have 4 games in hand over us and Estleigh and Halifax, Think about how that extra 7 points would have meant tous and how hard it would have made it for Rochdale , There is no way we will make the playoffs. stop dreaming .

Seven points dropped from three draws? Thanks Diane Abbott.

 

[BriggBlue]

Maher is running a professional football team, not a village cricket 5th team. He does not have to give people game time for the sake of it. He has seen Waldron every day for 18 months.

Others claiming he will score loads for another side at this level. Just zero evidence for that. He is 29 in May and this is the highest level he has ever played at.

Players get so much better in the imagination when they aren't in the team.

Totally agree, Waldron obviously hasn't made a compelling case to start in training.

Perhaps it's as simple as he hasn't been able to make the step up fitness wise to full time training, at 28/29 that's quite a big ask and it wouldn't be a surprise.

 

[wiggy]

Totally agree, Waldron obviously hasn't made a compelling case to start in training.

Perhaps it's as simple as he hasn't been able to make the step up fitness wise to full time training, at 28/29 that's quite a big ask and it wouldn't be a surprise.

Would Maher know if he’s any good?…..Tom Hopper is cemented in every week, enough said

 

[Barling Magna]

Throws his player under the bus "I might be doing him a disservice" but he's obviously a snowflake - tight calf? The game's changed. In my day you played through it. Tight calf? My arse.

 

[RHB]

You've got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

Well, that's just happy talk, that is.

 

[Shrimper0116]

Struggling to see why Golding is being show horned into a centre back position by Oxford? He obviously enjoys running with the ball and getting forward. Would be interested to see him as the holding midfielder in our set up.

 

[THE SEVENTIES NORTH BANK]

Struggling to see why Golding is being show horned into a centre back position by Oxford? He obviously enjoys running with the ball and getting forward. Would be interested to see him as the holding midfielder in our set up.

Because he's a big composed centre back, that is also good in the air. He can also run with the ball from there. Apparently, when in the midfield, he wasn't so good at the buzzing about everywhere, as he takes a few strides to get going, and wasn't so good at winning the ball back. The centre back position is perfect for him. He came into his element a couple of games ago, when he got his head or foot to everything. So we need him back there.

 

[sammy666]

You've got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

Martin Luther King had a dream and he got shot

 

[TSG]

You've got to have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?

I say just keep wishing upon that star, and who knows!

 

[overseas shrimper]

He should be the first member ejected for showing disrespect, maybe that should be a rule? Why did join SUEPA anyway if he hates us so much!

Actually, it is you who is disrespecting a Southend United legend.

 

[Shrimper]

You really think there will be proven goalscorers lining up, waiting to sign for us.

Our only options are probably going to be someone lower down, who would be a gamble.

I think it's highly unlikely we'll get a proven goalscorer from NL or League 2, as we won't compete with wages etc.

I would also much rather have Bonne than Hopper.

There will be better players available in summer, yes. Just look at last year where we were close to signing Ollie Pearce or when we were looking at Josh Kelly and Andy Dallas but fell short at the final hurdle.

 

[RobB11]

I’m not sure Waldron’s the answer, and I can’t understand why he’s suddenly being lauded. He played more often than not in the latter half of last season, scoring 3 goals in 20 plus appearances, hardly impressive. He didn’t do much in general play either, barely pressing when compared to the work rate of Powell for example,

Walker’s equally been fairly poor, scoring 3 in half a season (or perhaps less time if you discount time he was injured). IMO neither’s been good enough, but Walker has at least looked more threatening, and gets in goal more goal scoring positions when I remember the chances he’s missed. I’d prefer to persist with him or Kendall than revert to a past failure.

He’s not being lauded, people don’t understand how we can have four misfiring forwards ahead of him and he’s not even been given a chance? It’s strange and seems personal…

 

[RobB11]

This will happen! Kev obviously does not rate him.

Yeah he only likes strikers who can’t score clearly.

 

[SuperRonnieP]

He’s not being lauded, people don’t understand how we can have four misfiring forwards ahead of him and he’s not even been given a chance? It’s strange and seems personal…

Kev has said, more than once, that Danny Waldron gets his chance in training. None of us see the squad every day like Kev and the coaches do, but if Danny isn't showing as much as the other strikers during the week it sends a pretty strange message to the squad if he gets selected.

 

[yogi bear up the cagire]

A very symmetrical game. Great start and great finish but what went in between.......meaaah. First goal had a five second celebratory delay for me. I was sure that the shot had gone wide and I only leapt out of my seat when I saw our players congratulating each other. We had enough chances to go in at least level at the break. Terrible error for their first goal but was, as suggested by the commentators, helped by the bobbly pitch. The second our defender was outpaced, allowing the cross to come in but poor defending after that. Belatedly the switch was then made. The second-half Yeovil made a tactical switch (in midfield?) and our threat was effectively exstinguished. When our most creative player (in the first-half) went off injured, I didn't see any way back in......until added time. Our second had a similarity to the first, nestling in the corner. I had a slight delay celebrating that, not so much that I didn't see it, more in the disbelief it had actually happened!

 

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[rigsby]

Maybe, just maybe, Kev has come to the same conclusion as me. Danny Waldron has not shown he has the desire/ability and luck with injuries to make the step up needed.

Two months ago it was Jack Wood who hadn't been "given a chance". Jack himself has since proved that conspiracy theory to be total nonsense. So some have now picked up the Waldron stick to swing at Kev.

 

[Maroon Blue]

An enjoyable trip to the South West in the sun. A selection of beers available outside the away end, including the fine Atlantic Pale Ale. Tasty steaming hot Cornish Pasties all added to a good away day.
To the football and we also started steaming hot and LCP glided past a depleted Yeovil defence to set us on our way. It really was one way traffic as we then missed chance after chance. To them be 2-1 down after 20 minutes was unfathomable as we gifted the first and then to let that fat irksome Nouble to gloat in front us really grated. Half time should have been 4 or 5-2 to us but we fail to kill off lesser teams. Second half we huffed and puffed without creating anything. Yeovil just sat back and it was justice when the gifted Golding spanked one in right at the death. So we all went home with the relief of a point, but really it is 2 points dropped as once again we fail to kill off a lesser team and are still subject to defensive lapses. Gubbins must really be out of favour because we was crying out for a left footed defender in the 3 at the back. I know he had a shocker against Sittingbourne but would have been better than Goodliffe on the left. Golding moved there after the goals and in the end played like Zinchenko as an inverted full back as he showed his class further forward to get our goal and obvious MOTM. Maybe as someone suggested earlier play him in the midfield in front of Goodliffe.

Hayes 6
Taylor 6
Golding 8 MOTM
Goodliffe 6
GSM 6
Coker 6
Morton 6.5
LCP 7
Bridge 6.5
Hopper 6
Kendall 7

KAF 5.5
Bonne 6
Walker 5

Grating also to hear their manager Cooper spouting about their 2 good goals and how sporny Golding’s goal was going through 3 defender’s legs? Mate you only got in our half twice and rest of game defended for your lives, your goals were gifts.
So we stand ninth in the league and that is where I think we will finish. We are short of a play off team due to not killing off teams and defensive lapses I am afraid. The league table does not lie and with tougher opposition to follow this month in FGR, Alty, Eastleigh and Oldham, we do not have enough points in the bag. UTB

 

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Ruled out - Southend United duo Noor Husin and Nathan Ralph (Image: FOCUS IMAGES)


By Chris Phillips. Chief sports reporter.

SOUTHEND United were without Nathan Ralph and Noor Husin for Saturday’s clash at Yeovil Town.

Centre-back Nathan Ralph was missing with a hamstring issue while midfielder Husin was ruled out with an illness.

And Blues boss Kevin Maher must now wait and see if the duo are available for Tuesday night’s clash with Woking.

"Ralphy's had a tight hamstring this week and Noor overnight was ill,” confirmed Maher.

"He was suffering too much but we'll go wrap him up and see where he is for midweek.

“We’ll have to wait and see how Ralphy is too.”